We define Corporate Open Source (COS) as applying the precepts and methodologies prevalent in the open source development community for creating industrial-strength software projects in a corporation for internal use. It may seem that open source style development - using informal processes, voluntary assignment to tasks, and having few financial incentives - may not be a good match for commercial environments. Our ongoing work, however, demonstrates that under the right circumstances, corporations can benefit from open source development techniques.

We present two approaches to managing COS projects, and expand in detail on one of them. Our results indicate that open source approaches require significant adaptation to succeed in commercial settings. In particular, they require substantial support from business divisions within a corporation to successfully leverage the shared asset.

Since 1998, he has been working on multimedia signaling
protocols, especially Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). He is working on systems-related security areas for SIP, in
particular, and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) in general. He is also performing research into peer-to-peer (p2p) networks and
distributed hash tables, especially in the context of
supporting VoIP as an application
and studying the resultant effect on the network when the peer
selection process
yields local peers first.

He is fairly active in the very well known and respected Internet
Engineering Task Force (or IETF), especially in the
SIP-related
working groups. Besides being an author
and contributor, he also co-chairs two working groups:
ALTO and CUSS. The
Application Layer Traffic Optimization (or ALTO)
working
group is designing a protocol that will provide p2p
applications with information to perform better-than-random
initial
peer selection. The Call
Control
UUI Services for SIP (or CUSS) working group is
defining an extension to SIP for transporting user-to-user
information for applications using SIP to establish
multimedia
sessions.

While there will be light refreshments available, feel free to "brown bag" it and bring in food from the outside to eat during the social hour.

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